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 ===== Examples of covenants =====
 This list of conventions is not exhaustive, but aims to mentions some influential ones.
 ==== Global covenants: ====
 === Covenants by the United Nations: ===
-  * [[http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf|Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007)]]:
+  * [[http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf|Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples]] (2007):
     * protects "indigenous peoples", including education in own language
+  * [[https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/Minorities.aspx|UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities ]] (1992), article 4:
+    * Enable and encourage minority language development and education.
   * [[http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx|International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights]] (1966), article 27:
     * protects "ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities".
+  * [[https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-rights-child|Convention on the Rights of the Child]]
+    * potects minority language use (Art. 30) and the education of a child's language (Art. 29, c)
 === UNESCO's Declarations and Conventions ===